This week I received an email from Stig Hartvig Nielsen from WMR to verify my reception on 5930 kHz. The station is broadcasting from Bramming in Denmark. Unfortunately, as mr. Nielsen explains in the email below it doesn’t contain any detail. That said, the station offers QSLs for a small compensation, so that will be my next step.
WMR can be received in good quality here. They offer a nice selection of “world music”, which is a good alternative for listening to long lost tropical band stations.
It is not the first time I received a QSL from World Music Radio. Years ago I heard them via the Meyerton transmitter in South Africa:
Dear P. J. Reuderink
Thanks very much for your reception report to World Music Radio (WMR)! It is very kind of you to reach out to my small radio station. I am pleased to verify your report; please find attached the WMR eQSL for 2024.
WMR no longer issues full detail eQSL’s. A printed full detail QSL card, however, is available – if you send your report by mail to me at Hovedvejen 17, DK-8920 Randers NV, Denmark – and if possible enclose return postage (two duly stamped International Reply Coupons – or ten euro). An additional donation to keep WMR and Radio208 on the air will be appreciated. Please note that our PO Box in Randers SØ has been closed by PostNord. All PO Boxes in Denmark are being closed this year in this crazy country.
A printed full detail QSL card is also available if you send your report by e-mail, and at the same time make a donation of at least 75 DKK (10 euro) via PayPal to wmr@wmr.dk or paypal.me/worldmusicradio.
Reception reports using remote receivers (such as KiwiSDR’s) are not QSLed, unless it is a remote receiver in your own country set up and owned by yourself.
Now some details about World Music Radio: WMR is an independent music station with a cheerful mix of tropical, world music. The main focus is on reggae, salsa, soca, Brazilian music, and African music as well as a little Andean music and Punjabi music. I would say that at least 90 % of the music is from the Global South.
WMR commenced broadcasting on shortwave more than 50 years ago from the Netherlands and has since 1997 been owned and operated by Hartvig Media ApS, Denmark. In 2004 broadcasting from Denmark began. At present WMR is broadcasting 24 hours a day seven days a week on mediumwave 927 kHz (approx. 150 Watts from Hvidovre, Copenhagen. Currently off air), on shortwave 5930 kHz (150 Watts from Bramming), on shortwave 15700 kHz (300 Watts from Randers), and on shortwave 25800 kHz (150 Watts from Mårslet, Aarhus). Also streaming on the Internet.
Aerials used are an experimental coil aerial (“spool”) for 927 kHz (18 m above the ground), a horizontal dipole for 5930 kHz (13 m above the ground), a three element yagi beamed South for 15700 kHz (30 m above the ground), and a vertical half wave dipole for 25800 kHz (110 m above the ground).
Listening to WMR using this website: http://radio.garden/listen/world-music-radio-classic-am-927/g27WAsrY is recommended. Radio.garden is also available as an app for your mobile phone. Please add WMR as your favourite.
Using these sites: https://www.radio-danmark.dk/wmr-world-music-radio and https://raddio.net/331768-world-music-radio/ you can usually see the titles of the tracks played on WMR. Please give “thumps up” for WMR here.
If you are using Facebook, you are also kindly invited to follow WMR here: https://www.facebook.com/WorldMusicRadioWMR
Best 73s and good DX,
Stig Hartvig Nielsen
www.radio208.dk
www.wmr.dk
